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David Shotton

@dshotton
Director (with @essepuntato) of OpenCitations , an infrastructure organization providing open scholarly citations and bibliographic metadata as Linked Data.
Oxford, UK
opencitations.net
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  • @dshotton
    David Shotton
    @dshotton
    Dec 10, 2021
    Honoured to receive this award. So far, OpenCitations has picked the low-hanging fruit. Now the hard work starts: to extend the global open citation graph to include all those publications not using Crossref DOIs - see Academia’s missing references opencitations.wordpress.com/2021/09/23/aca….
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    David Shotton
    @dshotton
    Dec 16, 2020
    Thanks, Ross, but we also must acknowledge the hard work of all those other good folk involved in the Initiative for Open Citations, spearheaded by Dario Taraborelli @ReaderMeter
    @ArcadiaFund
    Arcadia Fund
    @ArcadiaFund
    Dec 16, 2020
    Elsevier announced it will be opening up reference lists of all articles via @CrossrefOrg. Can’t overestimate the hard work of @essepuntato @dshotton @opencitations in making this happen. Congratulations! elsevier.com/connect/advanc…
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    David Shotton
    @dshotton
    Nov 23, 2020
    Of relevance to this discussion: opencitations.wordpress.com/2020/11/16/the… #SocialDilemma and #OpenAcademicAnalytics
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    David Shotton
    @dshotton
    Oct 6, 2020
    Where Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata fit within in the whole Open Science scenario may be illustrated by the Open Science Layer Cake:
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    David Shotton
    @dshotton
    Oct 5, 2020
    Hear how Open Abstracts and other bibliographic metadata play a key role in the whole Open Science scenario:
    @open_abstracts
    Initiative for Open Abstracts
    @open_abstracts
    Oct 5, 2020
    Join us later today in the public launch event of the Initiative for Open Abstracts #I4OA; registration is still open tinyurl.com/i4oa-webinar
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